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29-551: The phrase "outer" refers to the former Wallanlagen (city walls) of Hamburg. The Außenalster was the part of the lake that was "outside" the city walls, built in 1625. In 1804 city wall and ramparts were stripped down and re-naturalized to parks , but the spatial division between the two lakes was retained. Today, two car and rail bridges, the Lombardsbrücke and the Kennedybrücke , span the river at this location. The areas around

58-410: A continuous park front, the eastern Wallring is marked by traffic infrastructure. Regardless of the terminology for the ring road as a whole, its individual sections have proper street names . The Wallring follows the course of Hamburg's former Wallanlagen (ramparts) developed by Dutch military engineer Johan van Valckenburgh between 1616 and 1625. Former city gates were Millerntor and Dammtor on

87-642: A few structures placed within the park-like settings. Already in the 1840s, the circular park suffered setbacks by infringements caused by the Hamburg-Altona rail. Eventually Hamburg Hauptbahnhof was built from 1898 until 1906. In 1922 the Hamburg Museum opened in premises at Holstenwall. During the bombing in World War II, the Natural History Museum was destroyed in 1943. Following the war, many of

116-452: A succession of roads, is also referred to as Inner Ring or just Ring . The department of transportation's official designation is Ring 1 ( German : Ring Eins ) in reference to subsequent ring roads Ring 2 and Ring 3 further out. For its heterogeneous quality, the Wallring is being differentiated as Westlicher (Western) and Östlicher (Eastern) Wallring. While the western Wallring has

145-404: Is a semi-circular urban ensemble encircling the inner city of Hamburg . It consists of a four-lane ring road with a total length of 3.3 kilometers (2.1 mi) and a continuous built-up street front on its inner side. The outer perimeter is – for the largest part – made up by a string of parks. The Wallring follows the outline of Hamburg's old city wall, and was developed in the first half of

174-551: Is fed by the rivers Alster , Osterbek (via Osterbekkanal ) and Wandse (via Mundsburger Kanal ). Other canals entering the Außenalster include Rondeelkanal, Goldbekkanal and Uhlenhorster Kanal. The lake also forms a number of smaller bays and inlets. The Alster River enters the Außenalster in the North at Krugkoppelbrücke and leaves it in the South at Kennedybrücke. Districts bordering

203-535: Is held on the frozen Alster. Almost all banks of the Außenalster are public. Formerly private gardens on the western side were made public while Hamburg was host to the Internationale Gartenbauausstellung (International Horticulture Show, IGA) in 1953. The banks vary from a small strip of green to large public parks (e.g. the Alstervorland ). The 7.6 kilometres (4.7 miles) long pathway around

232-771: Is one of the largest and most prestigious sailing regattas in the world. The HSC also assists the Yacht Club of Lübeck and the Norddeutscher Regattaverein in the organization of the Travemünder Woche . The predecessor of the present-day HSC was the Hamburger Yacht-Club, established in October 1892, out of which a group split in 1895. In 1926 this group merged with the Hamburger Segel-Verein . In 1927 it

261-719: Is one of the oldest and most active sailing clubs in Germany . The club is located by the shores of Lake Außenalster , in the heart of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . HSC is one of the organizers of the Kiel Week together with the Yacht Club of Kiel , the Verein Seglerhaus am Wannsee and the Norddeutscher Regattaverein . Taking place in the Bay of Kiel , this annual event

290-534: Is only 0.25 kilometers (0.16 mi) long, yet at 50 meters (160 ft) rather wide. It runs from Stephansplatz to the north-western corner of Binnenalster and was developed between 1827 and 1830 according to plans by Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1786–1845). The neoclassical facades were inspired by London's Portland Place , the avenue's four lines of linden trees were modeled after Berlin's Unter den Linden . The shopping street of Colonnaden , leading to Jungfernstieg boulevard, ends here. Lombardsbrücke ( Lombard Bridge )

319-525: Is the name of the bridge crossing the Alster River at the location of the former Alster glacis , and also the name of the two feeders, built on the former glacis. The feeders are landscaped parks, transitioning between the two Alster lakes. The current Renaissance Revival bridge was designed by Johann Hermann Maack  [ de ] (1809–1868) as a three-bay stone arch bridge and completed between 1864 and 1868. A first bridge at this location dated from

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348-413: The 19th century , when the defensive wall, the (Wallanlagen), was razed. The wall that defined the city's edge from the 1620s until the 1840s has had a strong impact on shaping the modern city. The Wallring park consists of several differently named sections, which — based on their common historical development — are characterized by a certain unity, but also by a number of dissimilarities. It also offers

377-759: The Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (DRL), later renamed Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL), like the Wassersportverband (Watersports Association). Since the NSRL, as a Nazi organization, was disbanded after Germany's defeat in World War II , the Hamburger Sailing Club had to be established anew, like other yacht clubs in West Germany at that time. Carl Georg Gewers led

406-606: The Laeiszhalle . Holstenwall is flanked by Große Wallanlagen. After passing Johannes-Brahms-Platz, the ring continues as Gorch-Fock-Wall, named after Hamburg-born poet Gorch Fock . It runs up to Stephansplatz , an important junction with Dammtorstraße. It is flanked by the Kleine Wallanlagen and the Old Botanical Garden ( Alter Botanischer Garten ). The Esplanade ( German pronunciation: [ˌɛsplaˈnaːdə] )

435-657: The 1960s, most of the traffic on the eastern Wallring is diverted through the Wallringtunnel. The outer perimeter of Glockengießerwall is home of the Renaissance Revival Kunsthalle , completed in 1869, and the Postmodern Galerie der Gegenwart , completed in 1997. At Steintorwall, the Walling passes Hamburg Hauptbahnhof on the outer perimeter and shopping streets Spitalerstraße and Mönckebergstraße on

464-464: The Außenalster are Harvestehude and Rotherbaum on the western shore, and Winterhude , Uhlenhorst , Hohenfelde and St. Georg on the eastern shore. Many of the streets around Außenalster are among the most desirable addresses in Hamburg. St. Georg, as part of Hamburg-Mitte , has a notably denser built environment; all other districts around Außenalster are primarily residential districts, with many of

493-495: The Außenalster developed slightly different on the eastern and western sides; while the western side became a wealthy suburban area around the late 18th century, much of the eastern side used to be a property of the finance department of the City of Hamburg and only developed in the later decades of the 19th century. The Außenalster has a size of 1.64 square kilometres (164 hectares) and is on average only some 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) deep. It

522-687: The first time and since 1928 the Kieler Woche (Kiel Week) as well. Five years after having been established the club had 343 members and 87 boats; 46 competitions had been organized in which a total of 922 sailcraft took part. The best yachts of the club at the time were the Freya , the Ingeborg VIII and Otto Schümann's Carla IV . Between 1934 and 1935, during Nazi times , all sailing clubs in Germany lost their autonomy and were arbitrarily joined to departments of

551-526: The former defensive ditches were filled with rubble. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Esplanade lost most of its northern building ensemble. Today, the western parks resembles the design of the International Garden Exhibitions (IGA) of 1963 and 1973 . parts of the eastern Wallring are tunneled by the so-called Wallring Tunnel, built between 1963 and 1966. The Wallring consists of

580-572: The inner city's largest network of parks, and forms a sort of connection to Hamburg's green and open spaces along Elbe and Alster . Etymologically, "Wallring" is derived from the German word "Wall" for Hamburg's former fortifications. Semantically, the Wallring was originally associated with the parks, and with the parks' semi-circular unity in jeopardy, the meaning shifted to the nonetheless continuous ring road. The parks alone are otherwise also referred to as Wallanlagen or Grüner Ring . The ring road,

609-413: The inner perimeter. Klosterwall is the Wallring's last section before terminating at Zollkanal. Klosterwall passes Georgsplatz and Deichtorplatz. Both eastern and western Wallring are lined with landmarks, museums and cultural institutions. [REDACTED] Media related to Ring 1 (Hamburg) at Wikimedia Commons Hamburger Segel-Club The Hamburger Segel-Club ( Hamburg Sailing Club ) (HSC),

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638-699: The lake is very popular for joggers. Because of frequently occurring gusts, the lake is considered no easy sailing area. The Alster's water is regularly tested for quality, and considered "very clean" by German standards. Nevertheless, swimming is not recommended, because of the density of watercraft and an oftentimes shallow vision. A number of famous, long-standing sailing and rowing clubs are based around Außenalster: like Der Hamburger und Germania Ruder Club (est. 1836), Ruderclub Allemannia (est. 1866), Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (est. 1868) or Hamburger Segel-Club (est. 1926). Hamburg Wallanlagen The Wallring ( German pronunciation: [ˈvalrɪŋ] )

667-554: The mid 17th century. On the bridge, the view opens up wide onto the Binnenalster , historically the Hanseatic city's " state parlour ". The eastern Wallring is part of Hamburg's "Museum Mile" ( Museumsmeile ), being home to some of the city's largest art museums. Despite this concentration of art, its outer perimeter is lacking the ring road's overriding underlying concept of a unified spatial perception and subject to redevelopment. Since

696-523: The outer glacis were subsequently remodeled into a park by German landscape architect Isaak Altmann (1777–1837). During the 1860s, the Wallring was developed as a boulevard, with a number of representative buildings lining the inner side – among those new structures for the Kunsthalle (1869), the Oberpostdirektion (1887) and the Natural History Museum (1891) – the outer side remained unbuilt apart from

725-524: The south-eastern bay of Außenalster; another hotel of the same category is currently under construction at Fontenay on the western shore. Usually during May, the Japanese community in Hamburg organizes the annual Kirschblütenfest ( Cherry Blossom Festival ) around Außenalster. Less regularly − that is, only when a winter becomes cold enough and the Außenalster's ice strong enough − the Alstereisvergnügen

754-418: The villas around the lake also being used by various organizations or small professional businesses. Alsterufer and Harvestehuder Weg on the western shore include a number of consular missions , like the U.S. Consulate General . For its proximity to the inner city and its recreational qualities, the Außenalster is location of a number of hotels : among others, five-star superior Hotel Atlantic lies near

783-537: The western and eastern Wallring, separated from each other by Lombard Bridge. The park continues along the bridge's feeders, while the bridge also marks the border between Neustadt and Altstadt. Geographically, the Wallring starts at Stintfang on the Elbe shore. Traffic-wise, the Wallring starts at Millerntordamm, off Millerntorplatz. Holstenwall, the Wallring's first section, runs up to Johannes-Brahms-Platz, named after Hamburg-born composer Johannes Brahms , and location of

812-563: The western and north-western side, Steintor on the eastern side, and Sandtor and Brooktor near the Elbe . Later additional gates were created, including Hafentor, Holstentor, Klostertor and Deichtor. The locations of all gates are still known as minor localities or zones of Hamburg. By the early 19th century, the ramparts were outdated and rendered useless against foreign attacks. In 1806, Napoleon had no resistance when capturing Hamburg. The fortifications were ultimately removed between 1820 and 1837,

841-656: Was registered as the Hamburger Segel-Club at the registry in Hamburg. The founders of the original Hamburger Yacht-Club were yacht racing and cruising enthusiasts who joined the Deutscher Segler-Verband four weeks after establishing the club. In 1925 the club organized the North Sea Week (Nordseewoche) sailing competition off Heligoland . In 1927 it helped to organize the Travemünder Woche for

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